This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
netlink: reset extack earlier in netlink_rcv_skb
to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
netlink-reset-extack-earlier-in-netlink_rcv_skb.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Sun Jan 28 17:35:08 CET 2018
From: Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 14:48:03 +0800
Subject: netlink: reset extack earlier in netlink_rcv_skb
From: Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit cd443f1e91ca600a092e780e8250cd6a2954b763 ]
Move up the extack reset/initialization in netlink_rcv_skb, so that
those 'goto ack' will not skip it. Otherwise, later on netlink_ack
may use the uninitialized extack and cause kernel crash.
Fixes: cbbdf8433a5f ("netlink: extack needs to be reset each time through loop")
Reported-by: syzbot+03bee3680a37466775e7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -2400,6 +2400,7 @@ int netlink_rcv_skb(struct sk_buff *skb,
while (skb->len >= nlmsg_total_size(0)) {
int msglen;
+ memset(&extack, 0, sizeof(extack));
nlh = nlmsg_hdr(skb);
err = 0;
@@ -2414,7 +2415,6 @@ int netlink_rcv_skb(struct sk_buff *skb,
if (nlh->nlmsg_type < NLMSG_MIN_TYPE)
goto ack;
- memset(&extack, 0, sizeof(extack));
err = cb(skb, nlh, &extack);
if (err == -EINTR)
goto skip;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.14/sctp-do-not-allow-the-v4-socket-to-bind-a-v4mapped-v6-address.patch
queue-4.14/sctp-reinit-stream-if-stream-outcnt-has-been-change-by-sinit-in-sendmsg.patch
queue-4.14/pppoe-take-needed_headroom-of-lower-device-into-account-on-xmit.patch
queue-4.14/sctp-return-error-if-the-asoc-has-been-peeled-off-in-sctp_wait_for_sndbuf.patch
queue-4.14/netlink-reset-extack-earlier-in-netlink_rcv_skb.patch